Complete using the most appropriate tense

  1. David ............... /........................... (go) to school and he .........../.....................(be) back in 10 minutes' time, if he ............................... (be) late.
  2. Sally ................ (come) into the room two minutes ago and now she ......... /................... (type) a letter for her boss.
  3. Fred usually .............................(spend) his holidays at the sea but this year he ............../.......................(go) to the mountains because he .................(want) to climb Ben Nevis.

Rewrite these sentences in the PASSIVE VOICE
Somebody has sent me a most interesting article.
  ............................................................................... ........................................................................ Tony Blair will welcome Queen Elizabeth to the Millenium Dome next week.   ............................................................................... ........................................................................ People all over the world enjoy pizza. And they enjoy Italian icecream.   ............................................................................... .......................................................................


Put these words into an order which makes correct sentences

  1. smoking sixteen have since been was I I .
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  2. life man hard had The all dead his worked.
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  3. do like to tonight What would you?
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Write the questions to these answers, so that a conversation is created

............................................................................... ........................................................................ ?

I’m bringing my girlfriend.

............................................................................... ........................................................................ ?

Very lively and energetic - she’s a lot of fun! 

............................................................................... ........................................................................ ?

No, she doesn’t, but she speaks Spanish very well. 

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No, she wouldn’t!


Report this dialogue. Useful verbs are ‘scream’, ‘offer’, ‘invite’, ‘accept’, ‘sigh’ - you don’t need to use them all and are free to use others

Help, help, there’s a mouse in the kitchen!

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Keep calm, I’ll open the door and chase it out.

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Oh, you’re wonderful. Would you like a cup of tea now?

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Yes, please. But I came to ask if you want to play tennis. We need a fourth person.

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I’d love to. Drink your tea and we’ll go.

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JUMBLED TEXTS.   Write the intital letters of the paragraphs in the boxes below to indicate the correct order of the passages.

A. When Verona travelled to play Napoli in the return game, the southerners hung their own banners: “Juliet is a whore".

B. Amsterdam’s most exclusive bordello is suing Schiphol Airport for the right to open a “relax service” for travellers after airport authorities refused to consider giving the brothel a permit, Dutch media reported Wednesday.

C. Soccer is a modern-day circus and an intelligent response is possible to the inevitable conflicts between fans. Not so long ago, fans in Verona unfurled “racist” slogans denigrating their guests from Naples.

D. To the EU, the far right is a threat too near to ignore. Many European countries have small rightist parties that espouse anti-immigrant, nationalist views similar to Mr Haider’s and EU leaders know that his message often touches a chord among mainstream voters in their own countries.

E. Their attacks on any kind of “diversity”, and their support of indefensible causes, is part of their aim of provoking and offending others. Will it really help anything if we try to impede this kind of irrational, demented ventilatio n of pent-up frustrations?

F. The shadow of World War II and Nazi Germany looms over the strong anti-Haider statement issued Monday by 14 ot the European Union’s 15 members - Austria being the sole dissenter - and it fuels the criticism many of them have voiced about the prospect of Mr Haider’s Freedom Party joining the government.

G. The airport refused, saying the luxury club would not fit in with the overall philosophy of Schiphol.

H. When the leaders of Western Europe look at Joerg Haider, they don’t just see a rightist extremist whose party is poised to enter the governing coalition of Austria. They see the ghosts of sixty years past.

J. The extremist ultra fans set out to horrify upstanding people, ministers and all the public insti tutions that preach the sermon of obligatory good will and feeling toward all.

K. Yab Yum, which offers its clients an expensive menu of caviar, champagne and sex at plush locations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, said it merely wanted to provide hors d’œuvres and nonsexual massage for travellers facing a long layover.

Amsterdam  |_|_|_|_|

Austria  |_|_|_|_|

Italy     |_|_|_|_|

With refernece to the jumbled tests, say whether the following statements are       TRUE or FALSE

1. The Neapolitans respect Juliet            |  

2. Schiphol Airport is welcoming abrothel on its premises       |  

3. It is possible to avoid being involved in conflicts between    | soccer fans                  |  

4. The far right is a possible danger to Europe         |  

5. It would definitely help to impede the prvoking behaviour of    | soccer fans                  |  

6. Austria contributed to the anti-Haider statement on Monday     |  

7. Memories of WWII cause people to criticise the far right      |  

8. Joerg Haider sees ghosts              |  

9. Ultra fans want to horrify tolerant people          |  

10. Yab Yum offers sex at Amsterdam Airport        |  

Give short answers to these questions

  1. What is the name of Amsterdam’s most exclusive brothel?
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  2. Why do EU leaders feel threatened by Mr Haider?
    ............................................................................... ............................................................................
  3. Did Napoli fans reply to Verona’s slogans with “racist” insults?
    ............................................................................... ............................................................................

CLOZE TEST Put a word into each space so that the passage makes sense

“Now this is Italy” says Tim Parks as we walk out .................... the Modern Languages University Institute in Milan where he teaches. Outside .................... clean, modern building with its gliding escalators and designer lighting, people .................... forced to clamber over a dark, muddy bank in order to .................... to the subway. Though the university building has been open for .................... the access road was never built. For Mr Parks it is .................... appropriate symbol of the way things are in his adopted .................... .


Complete these sentences with one of the following multi-word verbs

* put up with
* go out with
* get on with
* run out of
* look forward to

  1. I don’t ................................................ my brother very well
  2. Oh no! The car has ................................... petrol!
  3. Why don’t you ....................................... your birthday?



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